The Director, Strategic Communications of President Muhammadu Buhari 2019 Presidential Campaign, Festus Keyamo, SAN, has advised Nigerians not to gullibly fall for the alleged fantasy created by a video circulating online where officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, spoke of the commission’s plan to electronically transmit results beforeContinue Reading
The Joint Military Task Force (JTF) in the Niger Delta has revealed that the masterminds of the April 21 fire outbreak at Aiteo’s OML 29 oilfields died in the inferno. Rear Admiral Akinjidie Akinrinade, the JTF Commander, disclosed this shortly after inspecting the site of the incident in Awoba area,Continue Reading
Four senior staff of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen, while another was shot Tuesday evening in Rivers State. The incident took place in Abua-Odual Local Government Area (LGA), while the officers were on official duties. The officers were in Rivers to conduct anContinue Reading
15 states in the country are currently affected by Meningitis this year, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has revealed. This is as 2.8 million people are affected globally each year. The disease, NCDC said remains a major public health challenge affecting countries in the Africa. Hence, as theContinue Reading
The human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, on Tuesday, in Lagos, picked hole in the claim by the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) that the 2019 Presidential candidate of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is a Cameroonian (and not Nigerian) andContinue Reading
Cultists and other criminals in Rivers State have been given fourteen days to surrender their arms and other instruments of violence and subjecting themselves to traditional oaths. , with compromising monarchs and community leaders to not only be deposed, but treated as accomplices. These were contained in a nine-point communiquéContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has welcomed the acceptance of the United Nations Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres to co-chair a Special Session to raise $50 billion to fund the inter-basin water transfer from Central Africa to revive the Lake Chad. He received the response of the Secretary-General to his earlier letter through theContinue Reading
A Sharia Court II, sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, Nigeria on Tuesday sentenced 20-year- old Farida Taofiq and Raihana Abbas to two months in prison each for wearing skimpy dresses. Taofiq and Abbas, residents of Argungu road in Kaduna, were convicted after they pleaded guilty to constituting public nuisanceContinue Reading
Saudi Arabia has executed 37 men convicted of terror-related crimes, the kingdom’s official news agency said Tuesday. One of the convicts was crucified, according to an interior ministry statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). “The death penalty was implemented on a number of criminals for adopting extremist terroristContinue Reading
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has attacked a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bolaji Ahmed Tinubu, saying that the former Lagos Governor was pursuing fascist agenda to control all levels of power in Nigeria. Dogara, in a statement signed by his Media Aide,Continue Reading
